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单词 phycoxanthin
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phycoxanthinn.

Brit. /ˌfʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈzanθɪn/, U.S. /ˌfaɪkəˈzænθ(ə)n/
Forms: 1800s phycoxanthine, 1800s– phycoxanthin.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with English elements; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: phyco- comb. form, Greek ξανθός , -in suffix1.
Etymology: < phyco- comb. form + ancient Greek ξανθός yellow (see xantho- comb. form) + -in suffix1, after German Phycoxanthin ( C. Nägeli Gattung einzelliger Algen (1849) 7). Compare xanthin n.
Biochemistry. Now rare.
A yellow-brown colouring matter present in various algae, esp. in diatoms and brown algae.
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the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > plant pigments > yellow
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anthoxanthin1836
xanthein1857
xanthin1857
phycoxanthin1873
phytochrome1893
zeaxanthin1929
violaxanthin1931
xanthophyll1931
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > of natural bodies
polychroite1815
quercitrin1833
anthoxanthin1836
xanthophyll1838
xanthein1857
xanthin1857
phylloxanthin1858
safranine1868
phycoxanthin1873
ooxanthine1875
phytochrome1893
1873 H. C. Sorby in Proc. Royal Soc. 21 457 Phycoxanthine. This name was first proposed by Kraus for a substance he obtained from Oscillatoriæ.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 216 The peculiar bluish- or brownish-green colour which the Nostocaceæ share with the Chroococcaceæ, is caused by a mixture of true chlorophyll with phycoxanthine and phycocyanine.
1896 Bot. Gaz. 22 66 The close similarity of the yellow coloring matters, xanthophyll, chrysophyll, etiolin, phycoxanthin, etc., and their relation to carotin.
1928 Q. Rev. Biol. 3 460/2 All the plant and animal coloring matters which had previously been known as etiolin, chlorophyll yellow, xanthin, anthoxanthin, lutein, xanthophyll.., phycoxanthin.., and tetronerythrin. These..are a more or less indefinite group of pigments, which may be classified just as well..by the older term lipochrome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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